Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

- Marx, Karl

Best Quotes about Opportunity

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

20.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

21.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

32.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

41.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.